Fraudology Podcast with Karisse Hendrick

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick provides a comprehensive debrief following the massive shifts in the world of artificial intelligence and digital fraud. Karisse shares her highlights and lowlights from navigating the industry's rapid evolution, cutting through the future-looking hype to provide practical insights for fraud and payments professionals. The conversation explores the e...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick sits down with Hailey Windham, Community Lead for Banking at Sardine and host of the Fraud Forward podcast. Hailey shares her journey transitioning from a practitioner at community financial institutions to the vendor side, focusing entirely on providing practical, operational insights for credit unions and community bank fraud teams. The conversatio...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick provides a comprehensive debrief following the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Vegas conference. Karisse shares her highlights and lowlights from one of the industry's biggest events, cutting through the conference hype to provide practical insights for fraud and payments professionals. The conversation explores the evolving mechanics of Agentic AI in co...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick provides a comprehensive debrief following her long-awaited conversation with Kathy Stokes, the Senior Director of Fraud Prevention for AARP. Kathy shares her highlights and lowlights from leading the Fraud Watch Network, cutting through the general consumer education hype to provide practical insights for fraud and payments professionals. The conver...

**To sign up for the VAMP Webinar, June 16 at 1pm ET: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AjeqbDavKTXXc6iR8Z6Sbr8ttRf-9pqHa4fj_vccOfo1dwgNt6sG~AnY80C-qT5FYf6tPvk9UKHiJqkeUb_76qCOKNJdretWRhD6K3Ps2OwBmPw In this solo episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick breaks down a potpourri of recent fraud news stories that are shaking up both the retail and banking sectors. Karisse exposes how organized crime rings are...

In this episode of Fraudology, host Karisse Hendrick welcomes back Marc Evans, a veteran Las Vegas detective and the founder of Fraud Hero. Marc provides an on-the-ground debrief of the rapidly shifting fraud landscape, sharing front-line insights into how criminal organizations are pivoting their tactics as traditional cash-out methods vanish. The conversation explores the dramatic downfall of ma...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick comes to you from a beachside work-cation in Florida to deliver an essential debrief on the latest shifts in the e-commerce fraud landscape. Fresh off the Accertify Global Customer Summit, Karisse shares key strategic takeaways on why cybersecurity and fraud teams must break down operational silos as fraud signals increasingly move up-funnel. The con...

In this episode of Fraudology , Karisse Hendrick is joined by Robert Siciliano , a world-renowned security analyst, bestselling author, and the architect of the Strategic Human Firewall . While the industry often obsesses over technological solutions, Robert explores why humans—not hackers—remain the ultimate deciding factor in organizational security. The conversation dives deep into the "Human B...

In this episode of Fraudology , host Karisse Hendrick is joined by a guest she has been trying to bring back to the show for years: Holly Sandberg , a veteran leader in fraud operations, Americas Advisory Board at MRC and the former Director of Trust and Safety at Reverb. As the industry grapples with the rapid rise of Generative AI, Holly and Karisse cut through the "robot takeover" anxiety to pr...

In this episode of Fraudology , Karisse Hendrick provides a comprehensive update on the shifting tides of the fraud industry, from international takedowns to the growing pains of AI-driven commerce. Karisse dives into the latest news and personal insights gathered from her network, cutting through the industry hype to provide practical realities for fraud and payments professionals. The conversati...

The Fraud Avengers Assemble: Inside the Magic of Fraud Fight Club Round 3 In this special reunion episode of Fraudology , Karisse Hendrick is joined by Hailey Windham ( Fraud Forward podcast) and Jen Lamont for an authentic, "slumber party style" debrief straight from an Airbnb in Charlotte, North Carolina. After three days at Fraud Fight Club Round 3 , the trio cuts through the noise of tradition...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick welcomes back Ron Zayas , CEO of Ironwall , to discuss the terrifying ways Artificial Intelligence is industrializing fraud. While we often think of AI as a tool for automation, Zayas explains that its true danger lies in its ability to apply human-like logic to stolen data at an unprecedented scale. The conversation dives deep into the mechanics of...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick welcomes back Erin West , prosecutor and founder of Operation Shamrock , for an urgent update on the global "scamdemic" of pig butchering. Erin shares firsthand accounts from her recent investigative trip to Cambodia, providing a chilling look at the industrialized nature of transnational organized crime and the massive scale of the scam compounds op...

In this episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick provides a comprehensive debrief following the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Vegas conference. Karisse shares her highlights and lowlights from one of the industry's biggest events, cutting through the conference hype to provide practical insights for fraud and payments professionals. The conversation explores the evolving mechanics of Agentic AI in co...

In this episode of Fraudology , host Karisse Hendrick provides a comprehensive debrief following the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Vegas conference . Karisse shares her highlights and lowlights from one of the industry's biggest events, cutting through the conference hype to provide practical insights for fraud and payments professionals. The conversation explores the evolving mechanics of Agentic A...

In this episode of Fraudology , host Karisse Hendrick is joined by Frank McKenna , Chief Fraud Strategist at PointPredictive and the mind behind Frank on Fraud . Frank shares his latest deep dive into Starkiller , a sophisticated new phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) platform that emerged following the takedown of Tycoon 2FA. The conversation explores the terrifying mechanics of Attacker-in-the-Middle...

In this episode of Fraudology , Karisse Hendrick is joined by Keith Briscoe , VP of Education and Advocacy at the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) . Keith shares his journey from marketing commodity transaction software in the late '90s to falling in love with the high-value world of fraud intelligence at Ethoca. The conversation dives deep into the MRC's critical role in global advocacy , highlighting...

In this episode of the Fraudology podcast, Karisse Hendrick is joined by Matt Vega, Chief Fraud Strategist at Sardine, to explore how artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the threat landscape for financial institutions and online retailers. First, Matt reveals the alarming ease with which AI can now be used to orchestrate phishing campaigns. Using advanced tools like Vercel’s v0, Matt...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In this solo episode, Karisse Hendrick checks in from a hotel room in San Diego at the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG) conference to share urgent intelligence from the front lines of e-commerce fraud before the full chaos of conference season begins. First, Karisse explores two sophisticated new fraud trends that are leavi...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In this solo "vacation" episode, Karisse Hendrick checks in from the island of Maui to catch up on the latest in the fraud world before the chaos of conference season begins. First, Karisse explores a hilarious yet alarming trend in artificial intelligence: AI Hallucinations . Reading from a recent article by Frank McKen...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In this episode of Fraudology , Karisse Hendrick welcomes back elite fraud fighter and Stratovera CEO Robert Capps to discuss the shifting power balance in the age of AI. Robert shares a fascinating "thought experiment" where he used Large Language Models (LLMs) to reverse engineer obfuscated JavaScript , proving that ev...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In this episode of Fraudology , host Karisse Hendrick is joined by Jay Jones , a copywriter turned globally recognized external threat and impersonation risk consultant known as " The Profiler ". After being unexpectedly laid off in late 2023, Jay became a target for sophisticated scammers on LinkedIn, sparking a new mis...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In this deep dive episode of Fraudology, Karisse Hendrick kicks off 2026 by unpacking the annual Fraud Predictions report. While the data was compiled alongside the "Fraud Compadres"—Frank McKenna, Mary Ann Miller, and Matt Vega—Karisse uses this episode to provide her unique merchant-side perspective and exclusive behin...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In this episode of Fraudology , host Karisse Hendrick sits down with Robbie MacDiarmid to explore the rise of agentic AI and its implications for fraud prevention, payments, and liability in e-commerce. They break agentic commerce into its core layers: search, merchant interaction, and payment, then explain why fraud and...

Fraudology is presented by Sardine . Request a 1:1 product demo at sardine.ai In the final new episode of 2025, Karisse Hendrick closes out the year with a solo fraud news roundup covering the latest trends impacting e-commerce, payments, and digital trust. The episode examines the FCC’s response to large-scale robocalls, the rapid evolution of smishing campaigns into rewards and tax-refund lures,...